Jidong Chen
Software Engineer at Facebook
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJidong Chen is a mobile software engineer with 12 years of experience building Android, iOS and Flutter applications and the underlying JVM/bytecode and infrastructure that keep them reliable. Currently at Facebook in London, he has a track record of shipping production mobile features at scale from roles at Alibaba, Tencent and Xunlei, and contributes to notable open-source work like Alibaba’s flutter_boost where he improved iOS hybrid integration, accessibility and page-result handling. Pragmatic and detail-oriented—his GitHub motto, "Keep it simple. Make it work," reflects a focus on practical, maintainable solutions and removing unnecessary complexity. Equally comfortable in native and cross-platform stacks, he brings deep iOS expertise plus a systems-minded approach to performance and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
flutter10
objective-c10
swift10
ios10
flutter-game10
flutter-apps10
cachemanager9
dart9
caching9
accessibility8
xcode6
ios-simulator6
android-emulator6
android-studio6
android6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alibaba/flutter_boost
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
FlutterBoost is a Flutter plugin which enables hybrid integration of Flutter for your existing native apps with minimum efforts
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 releases, 101 commits, 16 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jidong primarily focused on modifying iOS-specific code within the `flutter_boost` repository, which is designed for hybrid Flutter integration. Their contributions involved fixing cache-related issues, optimizing code, and adapting the application to support accessibility features. The user also worked on integrating page result handling, ensuring proper data flow between native and Flutter pages. Finally, the user removed unnecessary screenshot functionality.
hybrid-flutterdartandroidhybrid-appminimum
nightwolf-chen/DoubanFM_IOS
May 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:83 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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